I don't know how many of you know about Clementine Ford, an Australia feminist writer and activist. She has a great FaceBook page and this came up in my feed this morning - I've copied the whole thing - but you should go & look at her stuff yourself - it's really worth it. She's clear and kick-ass.
I thought this post was really important & gets at the roots ("radical") of why I"m a feminist (and I'm probably about 30 years older than her!)
"Patriarchy and its enforcers relies on making women devote themselves to men rather than each other. The only way we will defeat the system is through women working together. Because if you think men ~as a class of people~ have your back, I’m sorry to tell you you’re wrong. Men will NEVER go to the mat to defend women the way that women consistently turn out to pledge their allegiance to men. Stop giving your energy to them and start giving it to your sisters. The coven takes care of its own.
.
It doesn’t mean you can’t love men or like them or have sex with them or enjoy their company or raise them (I’m raising one myself and I have many male friends!) but you also need to recognise how the SYSTEM works. The system does not want women working in concert together. It doesn’t want women to learn we can reject everything we’ve been told we have to aspire to (beauty, male approval, a semblance of protection from the worst of its harm in exchange for enthusiastic endorsement of its brilliance.) It definitely doesn’t want women to realise that if we work together, we form an unstoppable force that’s impervious to all of the system’s most insidious and manipulative tools.
.
Male supremacy cannot survive women’s solidarity. Fact. But women’s solidarity is also not always about men. In fact, sometimes - most times, in fact - it’s nothing to do with men at all. That’s another lie the patriarchy wants you to believe - that everything women do and think and say and breathe is somehow motivated by men’s opinions. Women exist and thrive regardless of whether or not a man is there to witness us in motion.
.
Support your coven, friends. The coven will save you. The coven is where you find all the power you thought you didn’t deserve.
.
Remember that saying: “We are the witches they tried to burn.”
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Feminism: Sex & gender discussions
Clementine Ford - worth a follow!
16 replies
YogaFaker · 17/04/2020 11:25
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.